Why College is Harming the Quality of Life for a Majority of Students Many times high school students are told that in order for them to ensure that they will improve their quality of life they have to go to college.They are told that if they do not go to college they will never be able to achieve a better life than the one they are living, they will never be able to live the “American Dream”. However, nowadays it is increasingly obvious that for a majority of students college is in fact harming their quality of life. With the rising cost of tuition, college debt, lack of preparation for college, the increase time it takes obtain a degree, job scarcity and restriction of major choosing, college has become more of a negative factor in students
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The sad fact is that having a degree does not guarantee that you will have a great paying job or get a job as soon as you start applying. In fact recent studies have shown that there are more graduates than there are jobs. As Richard Vedder states, in Twelve Inconvenient Truths About Higher Education, “We are turning out far more college graduates than the sum total of jobs in the relatively high paying managerial, technical and professional vocations” 9(Vedder4). As a result in order to get a high paying job that will guarantee success you have to have better credentials than the other fifty or so job applicants (e.g. a higher degree). Many college students do not realize this fact sadly till it is too late and if they are unable to pay for another degree then they are forced to settle for low paying jobs that they had not thought their high costing degree would get them. Another thing is that some degrees, because many of the jobs that require that degree are low paying, are simply not worth the money, no matter how much of a passion they have for them. In an article published by The Economist called Is College Worth the author states that “some degrees pay for themselves; others don’t” and “Hard subjects pay off” (iscollegeworthit1,3). These statements point out the fact that only some degrees will be worth it in the end and those degrees are usually the hardest ones to receive. So because of this many students end up restricted from studying what they love and instead are forced into studying for a degree that they have very little interest in just because they know that the subjects that they are interested in will not be able to pay off in the end. This ends up with a lot of graduates being unhappy with the job that they have and as the saying goes “if you’re doing what you love
The sad fact is that having a degree does not guarantee that you will have a great paying job or get a job as soon as you start applying. In fact recent studies have shown that there are more graduates than there are jobs. As Richard Vedder states, in Twelve Inconvenient Truths About Higher Education, “We are turning out far more college graduates than the sum total of jobs in the relatively high paying managerial, technical and professional vocations” 9(Vedder4). As a result in order to get a high paying job that will guarantee success you have to have better credentials than the other fifty or so job applicants (e.g. a higher degree). Many college students do not realize this fact sadly till it is too late and if they are unable to pay for another degree then they are forced to settle for low paying jobs that they had not thought their high costing degree would get them. Another thing is that some degrees, because many of the jobs that require that degree are low paying, are simply not worth the money, no matter how much of a passion they have for them. In an article published by The Economist called Is College Worth the author states that “some degrees pay for themselves; others don’t” and “Hard subjects pay off” (iscollegeworthit1,3). These statements point out the fact that only some degrees will be worth it in the end and those degrees are usually the hardest ones to receive. So because of this many students end up restricted from studying what they love and instead are forced into studying for a degree that they have very little interest in just because they know that the subjects that they are interested in will not be able to pay off in the end. This ends up with a lot of graduates being unhappy with the job that they have and as the saying goes “if you’re doing what you love